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Environment & Energy

Warpy

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4. You can't drain large expanses of wetlands to put up tract houses

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sat Oct 25, 2025, 04:21 PM

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and not expect to have both onshore and offshore ecological disaster.

Developers have killed much of what once made that state a good place to visit.

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What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them "shocked" -- and devastated [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP

If only we could have been warned about this. Yes, sadly it is sarcasm. efhmc Saturday #1

The reef off the Keys has been going downhill for years Ritabert Saturday #2

It's been disheartening to experience the degradation BeneteauBum Saturday #3

You can't drain large expanses of wetlands to put up tract houses Warpy Saturday #4

So true, similar thing with cutting down vast swaths of forest blue_jay Saturday #6

To be fairer, most the deforestation of the US was to feed the industrial revolution Warpy Saturday #7

Oh, you want me to fairer, blue_jay Saturday #8

Poo Tee Weet. BurnDoubt Saturday #5

This is what makes the transition to clean energy urgent. thought crime Saturday #9